Confusing dr.eq. With drams is exactly the reason Damascus, Twist, and other composite barrels got the bad rap that demonizes them even today.
Back when "dram equivalent" first came into use and for quite sometime afterward some ignorant folks were loading their own shells with black powder 'dram' loads of the modern stuff and the consequences were usually catastrophic. But it had nothing to do with what the barrel steel was. I would venture to say that fluid steel barrels may even have suffered the same failures... But at the time there weren't nearly as many fluid steel barreled guns in circulation.
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Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
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George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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